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How much of human life is lost in waiting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.
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The population of the world is a conditional population these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases, animals, and morals: the best that could yet live there shall be a better, please God.
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The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.
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Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head?
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Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
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When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.
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Pay no heed to the average photographer's remarks upon flat and weak negatives. Probably he is flat, weak, stale, and unprofitable your negative may be first-rate, and probably is if he does not approve of it.
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